Jing Videos in PowerPoint (Windows Only)
Posted on Monday November 10, 2008 by Mike Curtis
Wanna learn a cool trick? Next time you have to give a presentation, wow your audience with an embedded video. This will help you explain certain things without the usual static screen captures and bullet points.
There's a couple of ways to do it. There's the easy way, which requires you have a copy of TechSmith's SnagIt software. SnagIt's Add-in makes it easy to drop a video into a slide. I've made a Jing video showing this process. You can learn more about all the SnagIt add-in's here.
You don't have to have SnagIt in order to put Jing videos in PowerPoint presentations, but PowerPoint doesn't make it obvious like inserting an image. I've found and tried a couple of resources on the Web.
The process is fairly similar on PowerPoint 2003 and 2007.
A video from Moyea PowerPoint to DVD Burner Software showing PPT 2003.
Here's a post written by Amit Agarwal on Digital Inspiration that shows PPT 2007.
Comments (8)
This is AWESOME. I want to make great presentations and had no idea how to handle it. Thanks to your article, it helps a lot.
Posted by Awesome | November 17, 2008 8:41 PM
Posted on November 17, 2008 20:41
I don't see the video!
Posted by walkiria | November 22, 2008 9:43 PM
Posted on November 22, 2008 21:43
Nice one; this is exactly what I needed to know and a great way to market your stuff!
Posted by David | November 24, 2008 5:33 PM
Posted on November 24, 2008 17:33
Hi Mike
My question is kind of the reverse of the above. I'd like to use Jing to create audio presentations - in other words, use Jing to capture my slideshow along with my audio commentary so that I can share it with my students. I guess I could start the slideshow and capture the whole screen but that would make the output too big to sit neatly in my blog. There doesn't seem to be a way in Ppt to shrink the slideshow so that it only occupies part of the screen. I bet there's a work around for this that I haven't thought of..?
Posted by Cheyl | November 27, 2008 7:15 AM
Posted on November 27, 2008 07:15
Hi Cheyl,
Here's an idea. Open your presentation. View it in the "edit" (not presentation) mode. Then zoom out a bit so the slide is small, but still readable. Now, use Jing to capture the area of the screen that only shows your slide. The viewers will not see the rest of the PowerPoint interface. Now you can use the arrow keys to advance the slides and narrate on top of the video.
I hope that helps! Oh--and one last tip. Fancy transitions and movement will increase the video file size quite a bit.
Thanks for posting!
Mike Curtis
Information Development, TechSmith
Posted by Mike Curtis, TechSmith | December 1, 2008 1:51 PM
Posted on December 1, 2008 13:51
this package is really good, but would be excelent if could download it for Linux too!
Posted by krblla | December 3, 2008 7:12 AM
Posted on December 3, 2008 07:12
How do you get the PP presentation to move to the next slide after playing the video? I can insert and play the video, but am unable to advance to the next slide unless I click ESC and get out of the slide presentation.
Thanks.
Posted by Thad Dickinson | December 15, 2008 3:17 PM
Posted on December 15, 2008 15:17
You can make presentations using Google Docs and you can insert youtube videos in them. So if you have posted your Jing screencast on youtube you can then add it to any presentation made on Google Docs.
Posted by Joni | December 20, 2008 12:06 PM
Posted on December 20, 2008 12:06